Liam,
I do not understand why you write to me only this time instead of
discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx as you had done to begin with.
I do not understand either why you come back here to your earlier
questions to which Marv and I have already answered.See
http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/bigarch/archive-eighth/msg01017.html and
http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/bigarch/archive-eighth/msg01018.html
It takes us time, mind you, to repeat ourselves.
Once you have installed slamr showing no error report, you never need to
do it again.
If Ubuntu installs something, it can only be sl-modem-daemon.
If Ubuntu does this after a successfull installation of the slamr
package, just go to the subdirectory slamr-2.6.22-14-generic from which
you installed slamr and copy the good slmodemd overwriting the bad one
installed by sl-modem-daemon. The command is
sudo cp slmodemd /usr/sbin
About GnomePPP again, we have already answered. wvdial is a good tool
for DEBUGGING.
As soon as the modem works, you can use any dialer you like, even GnomePPP.
Again, I do NOT use any other dialer than wvdial and have NO experience
with gadgets which I do not need.
To set up GnomePPP, read the documentation and/or learn "hands on" its
assisted configuration process. One thing may be missing there, how to
mock the wvdial parameter Carrier Check = no . To that too I answered in
advance: add X3 to the modem initialization string.
Best regards - Jacques
Liam wrote:
Hi Jacques,
I am really sorry i haven't responded until now, i have been
ridiculously busy and just haven't had a chance to sit down and apply
your suggestions but hope to find time on Sunday. I really really do
appreciate your help though. I had no idea it would be so troublesome
to setup a dial up modem.
Anyway, it seems that whenever i reinstall the
slamr-2.6.22-14-generic, Ubuntu pops up and tries to install what i
assume is supposed to be updated version which just doesn't seem to
work properly.
I am happy to use wvdial for testing but would much prefer to use the
GnomePPP front end for the actual operation of the modem. I am setting
the computer up for a friend of a friend who i assume has little
Windows experience and zero Linux or commandline experience, so a nice
pretty GUI really is needed.
My location is Australia, so i assume i use the country AUSTRALIA correct?
Thanks again,
Liam
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:59 PM, Jacques Goldberg
<Jacques.Goldberg@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Liam,
The Ubuntu 7.10 installer's sl-modem-daemon installs a file
slmodemd which is obsolete while the slamr- driver installs one which has
been updated for your kernel 2.6.22-14-generic.
This is why sometimes your modem is detected and sometimes not. Please
understand taht we out here have no control on what Ubuntu installs.
Therefore the thing to do is to have sl-modem-daemon installed first, and
then only the slamr file.
Actually, you installed the slamr file and could see the modem, then added
the daemon which replaced the good slmodemd file by the bad slmodemd file:
then of course you can't see the good file nor the modem.
Finally you installed the good file again and thus can see the modem.
Now please understand this:
1-sl-modem-daemon does not do anything more than automatically blindly
starting the program slmodemd which actually controls the modem - to save
you typing one command to start slmodemd.
2-We always recommend to use wvdial rather then "more friendly" tools such
as Gnome-PPP because their friendless also includes masking error messages.
Without error messages, you cannot know what went wrong: my first bet would
be that the modem waits for a dial tone which seems to neither pop up
because the driver simply does not detect tones.
This would give a clear message using wvdial.
To use wvdial you must first start slmodemd if not already running with the
command:
sudo slmodemd -c COUNTRY /dev/slamr0
where COUNTRY would be USA or something like it (see in your ModemData.txt
how to find the country if needed).
Now DO NOT STOP slmodemd , just go on working in an other window.
use once for ever
sudo wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf
wvdialconf will recognize your modem.
Edit the file /etc/wvdial.conf (see
http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/wvdial.html
to adjust phone number, username, password)and add one line to
/etc/wvdial.conf while editing:
Carrier Check = no
Save and exit the editor.
Now type sudo wvdial and your modem should start.
Or it will tell you why it fails.
If you insist using Gnome-PPP , the only thing I can suggest, which
possibly but not necessarily solves, is to add X3 in the modem
initialisation string, where Gnome-PPP sets up the modem.
Jacques
Liam wrote:
Hi,
I really need some help setting up and configuring my dial up modem in
Ubuntu 7.10. I know Windows very well, but am still learning and
finding my way around Linux.
So far i have run ScanModem and run setup in the
slamr-2.6.22-14-generic package and also installed the GnomePPP but
still can't seem to get the modem working properly.
Since installing the above, a Motorolla SM56 Data Fax Modem is now
listed in the Ubuntu Device Manager.
GnomePPP detects my modem at /dev/ttySL0 but still cannot make calls.
The Ubuntu update manager now wants to update the sl-modem-daemon
(Version 2.9.10+2.9.9d+e-pre2-5ubuntu4). I initially installed this
update but this caused GnomePPP to no longer detect my modem. So i ran
the setup in the slamr-2.6.22-14-generic and the modem is detected by
GnomePPP again.
Should i install this update or ignore it?
I hope i haven't messed everything up.
Thanks a lot for everyone's help. It is very much appreciated.
Liam
